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Psychotime

Psychotime

But seriously, it's only like that because it's the most powerful (read: broken) card in the game, as well as one of the first cards ever made (1991). It's only for collectors to bother with. Modern cards never go over Yugioh prices. And they always go down when they get old. (Works for me!)

You can't even use it in most tournaments. The one that does allows proxies.

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To talk more about Magic, Yugioh players will probably double take when they realize how tournament formats work. Too lazy to type myself, so I just took this from wikipedia.

Different formats of Constructed Magic exist, each allowing different cards. They include "Vintage", "Legacy", "Extended", "Standard", and "Block Constructed". The DCI maintains a "Banned and Restricted List" for each format; players may not use banned cards at all, and restricted cards are limited to one copy per deck. The DCI bans cards that it determines are damaging the health of a format; it seeks to use this remedy as infrequently as possible, and only a handful of cards have been banned in recent years. Currently, the only format with a Restricted List is Vintage.

Block Constructed formats are defined by the cycle of three sets of cards in a given block. For example, the Ravnica block format consists of Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, and Dissension. Only cards that were printed in one of the sets in the appropriate block can be used in these formats.

Standard contains the current block, the last completed block, and the most recent core set. The Standard card pool undergoes a "rotation" each year in October. Currently the Standard card pool consists of the Shards of Alara block, the Magic 2010 core set, and the Zendikar block.

Extended is the format where all Magic blocks and core sets issued during the last seven years are legal. As in Standard, the pool rotates once a year in October.[note 6] The current Extended format consists of the Mirrodin, Kamigawa, Ravnica, Time Spiral, Shards of Alara and Zendikar blocks; the Lorwyn and Shadowmoor mini-blocks; the Ninth and Tenth edition core sets, as well as the core set [Magic 2010]; and Coldsnap, a standalone set that rotates with the Time Spiral block.

Vintage and Legacy are considered "Eternal Constructed" formats because the card pool never rotates. This means that all the sets that are currently legal will continue to be legal and any new sets will automatically be included in the legal card pool. The only banned cards in Vintage are cards using the "ante" mechanic and a few other cards that the DCI considers inappropriate for competitive Magic. Because of the expense in acquiring the scarce old cards to play competitive Vintage, many Vintage tournaments permit players to proxy a certain number of cards.

In my case, I don't do tournaments. But in terms of card pool, I play extended, but personally force myself into a specific block.